Archive for the ‘Web Apps’ Category
Useful Tips & Ideas for Fluid App
Most of you should have known Fluid by now. With Fluid app, you can create “Site Specific Browsers (SSB)”, basically turning any web apps into a desktop app. Essentially what Fluid does is create a browser that is dedicated to a single application. To read more about Fluid, read my previous review. The best thing about ...
Run Google Tasks on Your Menu Bar
As you might already know, Google recently gave GTD fans some lovin’ by optimizing Google’s “Tasks” for iPhone and Android. (read more from Google’s Blog) Wouldn’t it be nice if you can also run Google Tasks on your Mac as a menu bar item with the same sleek interface you see on the iPhone or Android? If ...
Turn Web Apps into Desktop Apps with Fluid
As a web designer, I spend a large amount of time on the internet, using lots of web apps like Freshbooks, to send and track estimates and invoices to my clients, SQL Buddy, a much more beautiful alternative to PHPmyAdmin which I have installed on my own hosting server to manage mySQL databases, Google Reader, ...
LittleSnapper – Taking Screenshots To The Next Level
If you always find yourself taking screenshots on the web, on your desktop etc, so that you can post the pictures to your blog, you’ll find your desktop often clogged up with fragments of your screenshots. There are also countless reasons why we take screenshots, like annotating screenshots so that you can explain stuff more ...
Evernote – Now With File Syncing (Demo)
The Evernote Mac app greeted me today with a software update, telling me that it is able to sync files to the cloud. Nice! Before we began, if you haven’t heard about Evernote, I strongly suggest you try it, here’s an article containing more information about what Evernote is capable of. Basically Evernote lets you create ...
Remindr – through Twitter, email, mobile, GTalk, etc
Want to get reminders through Twitter, email, Jabber, GTalk or your mobile phone? Remindr does just that. Remindr is one of those clean and simple web app that lets you get reminders of anything you want, and this one does it via a couple of channels. If you use Twitter daily, this web app is a fun ...
How to sync photos from Facebook to your Address book
I still remember the old days when I got my first Nokia symbian based phone where I can assign photos to my contacts. The idea was great, but the process was painful. With the advancement of technology and thoughtful people, this problem was solved by Dan Auclair who made this simple but useful app that takes ...
How to host your own short URLs
There are countless URL shortening services out there that shortens your URLs, only a handful lets you track clicks. A service that lets you shorten URLs using your own domain name is even harder to find. Shorty is one of the rare gems. Shorty lets you install your own URL shortening service on your server. Suberapps.com ...
The Best Free Online File Storage & Sharing Service
Everyone needs one of these free online file storage / sharing service one of these days to easily send large files to your colleagues, clients or friends. The biggest gripes with the many big names in online file storage services like YouSendIt, Box.net, is not the amount of space you can store files in your online ...
Mint – A Fresh Look At Your Site
Mint (live demo here) is a web app that lets you track your website statistics, for stats addicts! What I love about Mint, as opposed to using Statcounter or Google Analytics is because of it’s beautiful design, lightweight, no ads, lets you install it on your own server (http://www.yourdomain.com/mint/), much like Wordpress. You can also install ...


